Here are The Wheel’s Still In Spin’s suggested new releases.
The Bats – The Guilty Office | CD
Download “Countersign” (mp3)
Download “Castle Lights” (mp3)
This album, the New Zealand band’s seventh in twenty-some years, is an indie pop record. The guitars are the prominent instrument, but with the spacious jangle of Luna or the mellower, pop side of the Velvet Underground.
Michael Dean Damron & Thee Loyal Bastards – Father’s Day | CD
Michael Dean Damron was best known as the man behind the moniker I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House. For his third post-SOB album, Damron offers a handful of covers – Drag The River, Thin Lizzy, and Townes Van Zant. As with his previous releases, his southern rock sound is best when there’s a dark tone to match the gruff vocals.
Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day | CD
Download “Easy” (mp3)
This is a strong album from a rock band that draws equally from country and indie roots. The four-piece band plays guitar driven country rock with John MacCauley’s raspy drawl leading the charge.
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm | CD
Download “I Want You to Know” (mp3)
As the second release since reuniting, Farm proves that the original members can still offer the same energetic intensity as they did over twenty years ago. The band can still capture the bombastic and catchy alternative rock sound that made their earlier albums memorable – from Mascis’s crunched and distorted guitar to Murph’s crisply thumping drums, from Barlow’s solid bass to Mascis’s subdued vocals.
After the jump, there is a list of more new releases from this week.
Other releases from 23 June 2009:
The Albertans – Legends of Sam Marco | CD
Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals | CD
Amazing Baby – Rewild | CD
Astra – The Weirding | CD
The Bats – The Guilty Office | Recommended above
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue | CD
Birds of Avalon – Uncanny Valley | CD
Tom Brosseau – Posthumous Success | CD
Kendel Carson – Alright Dynamite | CD
Chase Long Beach – Gravity Is What You Make Of It | CD
Cheap Trick – The Latest | CD
The Cliks – Dirty King | CD
Shawn Colvin – Live | CD
Christina Courtin – Christina Courtin | CD
Caitlin Crosby – Flawz | CD
Michael Dean Damron & Thee Loyal Bastards – Father’s Day | Recommended above
Darkest Hour – Eternal Return | CD
The Dear Hunter – Act III: Life and Death | CD
Deastro – Moondagger | CD
Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day | Recommended above
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm | Recommended above
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings | CD
The Echo Falls – The Echo Falls | CD
Eryn Non Dae. – Hydra Lernaia | CD
Escala – Escala | CD
Firebird – Grand Union | CD
Foreign Born – Person to Person | CD
Future of the Left – Travels with Myself and Another | CD
Ginuwine – A Man’s Thoughts | CD
Goatwhore – Carving Out the Eyes of God | CD
God Help the Girl – God Help the Girl | CD
Hermit Thrushes – Slight Fountain | CD
The Higher – It’s Only Natural | CD
Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) | CD
Donny Hue and the Colors – Letter from New Virginia | CD
Into It Over It – 52 Weeks | CD
Jets Overhead – No Nations | CD
Michael Johns – Hold Back My Heart | CD
Joel Kaiser & The Devils Own – Honkey Tonkin’ Till the Coffin [EP] | CD
Greg Koons & The Midbegotten – Welcome to the Nowhere Motel | CD
LANDy – Eros and Omissions | CD
Last Resort – You’ll Never Take Us | CD
The Lemonheads – Varshons | CD
Love Is All – Last Choice [EP] | CD
The Mars Volta – Octahedron | CD
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster – III | CD
Eugene McGuinness – Eugene McGuinness | CD
John Mellencamp – Life Death Live & Freedom [Live] | CD
Tift Merritt – Buckingham Solo [Live] | CD
Merzbow – 13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 6 | CD
Miss May I – Apologies Are For the Weak | CD
Mobile – Tales from the City | CD
David Moore – My Lover, My Stranger | CD
The Mountain Apple Epidemic – Thin & Pale | CD
Native Window – Native Window | CD
Navegante – Microcosmos | MP3
Never Shout Never – The Summer EP | CD
Brian Olive – Brian Olive | CD
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – The Phenomenal Handclap Band | CD
Push-Pull – Between Noise and the Indians | CD
Masha Qrella – Speak Low: Loewe and Weill in Exile | CD
Reign Supreme – Testing the Limits of Infinite | CD
Charlie Robison – Beautiful Day | CD
Royal City – Royal City | CD
The Sa-Ra Creative Partners – Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love | CD
The Scarred – At Half Mast | CD
Serengeti & Polyphonic – Terradactyl | CD
Sleeping Giant – Sons of Thunder | CD
Sons of Bill – One Town Away | CD
Soul Assassins – Intermission | CD
Regina Spektor – Far | CD
Spinnerette – Spinnerette | CD
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer | CD
Al B. Sure – Honey I’m Home | CD
Talibam! – Boogie in the Breeze Blocks | CD
The Tall Pines – Campfire Songs | MP3
Tall Tall Trees – Tall Tall Trees | CD
Jackson Taylor & The Sinners – Aces ‘N Eights | CD
Otis Taylor – Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs | CD
Therefore I Am – The Sounds of Human Lives | CD
Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship | CD
Venetian Snares – Horsey Noise [EP] | CD
Voivod – Infini | CD
Larry Jon Wilson – Larry Jon Wilson | CD
Wooden Shjips – Contact [EP] | Vinyl
Ya Ho Wa 13 – Magnificence in the Memory | CD
Pete Yorn – Back and Fourth | CD
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I did not know The Bats have a new album. Thanks for this.
Posted by: tjd9 | 24 June 2009 at 04:00 AM